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December 28 Můj milovaný miláčkuDecember 28, 2009 [December 28, 2006] Google raul hernandez Google raul hernandez chile Google raul hernandez olea Google Raúl Hernández Olea
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In my letter dated May 1, 2004 –Entry into the EU & Stephen King– I wrote:
“We have to travel to the Elqui Valley one golden day and its starry night to be blessed again, to heal all your wounds, and for protecting us from future suffering. We will renew our intimate liturgy in the nature. We should spend one more night in Vicuña –the town in the heart of the Valley– for staying in the Hostería to fix our failure in the summer 1999, and to spend some days by the sea in Andalué (Guanaqueros). I have delightful remembrances from our journey by the coast the past year in a sunny winter day of August, when in Rocas de Santo Domingo we had the Stephen King approach to that solitary and weird restaurant on the cliffs at the seaside. Do you remember? Was it a happy day for you too? I have the special wish for us to take the tour to the Mamalluca Astronomical Observatory in Vicuña to watch the heavens in the middle of the night and to enjoy the Milky Way by naked eye. I want to hug you in the starry wind once more!”
But we did not return to the Elqui Valley. It remained my intimate desire postponed for eternity when we reunite with Stella Maris again. However, on December 28, 2006, at the beginning of summer, I returned to the Elqui Valley in a nostalgic and solitary journey. It was not the liturgy for renewing our vows but my personal farewell and prayer revering the star that was personified in my lifetime, my brightest lucero, Sirius and Stella Maris altogether. The weather was wonderful in the Valley and I stayed overnight in the fine hotel and resort Hostería de Vicuña, fixing so my unaccomplished desire from February 1999. Late in the evening I went up to the Mamalluca Astronomical Observatory, located on one of the cerros that surround the Valley. In the open air there were field telescopes and the big one was in the Observatory’s Dome in a fancy building. At midnight, after a lecture on the Zodiac in the auditorium, I watched the heavens through the telescopes and also by naked eye advised by astronomers. It was great spiritual experience, which concentrated my childhood desires learning Ancient History on Assyrians and Egyptians, and my youth longing studying Cosmology in my university years, and later reading about Astronomy and mathematical and physical sciences. Infinitude, immensity, complexity and beauty of the Universe have always let me in ecstasy and profoundly meditative; the essence of it –space-time, mass, matter, light, gravity, emptiness, and Mathematics– constitute the Divinity, if any. I watched through a field telescope the intensely white-blue star Sirius, which is 23 times brighter than our Sun and has twice its mass (it is a 2-star system). It was majestic experience seeing it, and also watching the red giant star Betelgeuse nearby, which appeared through the telescope spectacularly big and reddish. Through the big Dome’s telescope I watched the cluster of the Pleiades. Only a few stars can difficulty be seen by naked eye in that region of the space, but suddenly the telescope revealed hundreds of sparkling stars forming the cluster, making it so vividly that seemed a miracle. The Three Maries –in the Constellation of Orion– constitute grand gift for the mortals. I watched them at Mamalluca in their glorious splendor outshining in the crystal sky of the Valley. They accompanied our love all along Chile during many adventurous and blissful nights. Only the resplendent Southern Cross was missing due to the time it was, but in my heart it was shining as the celestial jewel that united us intimately on Earth, and which we watched with emotion in so many idyllic nights along Chile. From the Observatory I returned to the Hostería of Vicuña late in the night, only accompanied by the whirling arm of the Milky Way, scintillating and consoling, holding her in my heart with the splendor of thousand suns. She will remain there illuminating my path to eternity. [Download]
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November 01 Honeymoon
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October 04 Bridal JourneyOctober 4, 2009 [October 4, 1999] raul hernandez chile - Raul Hernandez Olea - Raúl Hernández Olea - AndesEbla - EblaChile - Marcela Nenickova - Marcela Neničková - Nenickova - Neničková - Nicolo Machiavelli - Niccolò Machiavelli - Isaac Newton
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July 07 Happy Birthday!Happy Birthday!
I would like to present you today with the same sentiment of sunshine, joy and sweetness that you have left in my soul. Still I feel inspiration and motivation for you. On this special day –which I do not dare to mention by its true name, being the No-Day, but calling it by your beautiful name– I wish all the best for you. [More] June 12 Anniversary & World RitualsAnniversary & World Rituals [click] June 12, 2009 [June 12, 2004] raul hernandez chile - Raul Hernandez Olea - Raúl Hernández Olea - AndesEbla - EblaChile - Marcela Nenickova - Marcela Neničková - Nenickova - Neničková - Nicolo Machiavelli - Niccolò Machiavelli - Isaac Newton
I vividly remember the afternoon of June 12, 1998, when the bliss hit my heart in the vastness of an ocean of hopes and fantasy. In retrospective it looks as if the evening star had descended for an instant touching me with the grace and beauty of the Universe. Today, as part of my cheerful celebration and the sentiment of privilege of having you as my garland of stars and flowers, I am attaching to this missive my first letter, written on that very June 12, 1998, which is the gala version for our e-Book (Chapter The Pledge) to be legacy for our descendants, to give them testimony of such great achievement and for cheering them up by our heroic example.During this week two World historic events have made me reflect about you from other special view, which, by the way, has been recursive along the years since I met you. In essence you have been my greatest factor of progress and development since the year 1998, in regard of my intellect, personal economy and profession, bringing me good luck and lighting my good star. It has been a grand plus. I did not count on it nor did I imagine it. I feel much acknowledgement to you for that. You have awoken inside me profound love, joy, satisfaction, pride, but also motivation for the dominion of the English language, which has opened for me widely the World in all senses, achievement that without you and my daring effort started on June 12, 1998 –really nearing temerity– I could not have ever attained. I would have missed a precious part of my existence!The two World events that I refer have been the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day –commemorated by emotive ceremonies and bright parades by the sea on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 in Normandy (Avranches), France– and, very especially, the funerary rituals and the state funeral for Ronald Reagan, tribute to the great leader of the West, gifted, providential and optimistic Occidental hero, who defeated the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union and its court of totalitarian police states in Eastern Europe, the winner of the Cold War, whom all of us owe so much. In the USA, United Kingdom and Latin America these special events have been given great importance. For me personally, eager witness and dedicated studious of half a century of History, and feeling to have been part of the Intelligentsia of my nation, these rituals and ceremonies have been exceptional opportunity to recall my entire life and to feel intimately close to you. I have been stuck the entire week to the CNN and to the BBC enjoying everything, watching and listening to everything in English as if it was my native language. All of it is your priceless gift to me, and I feel acknowledgement and joy for it.On Sunday morning the CNN, the BBC and the DW broadcasted the ceremonies and colorful military parades in Normandy on a pretty sunny day by the sea, glittering as our Mirasol. Leading the Honor Guard Standards was the big Czech flag, wonderfully waving in the brilliance before the ocean, and it was delightfully surprising to be seen it feeling you so close to my heart.Later in the week the funerary rituals and state funeral of Ronald Reagan in Washington D.C., performed in the Capitol and mainly in the National Cathedral, having 300 heads of states and great leaders from all over the world reunited (including Mikhail Gorbachov and Margaret Thatcher), showed expressions of very great national fervor in the United States for a beloved President. The glorious and tender hymn America the Beautiful, rendered by great choir and orchestra under the dome of the magnificent Capitol Rotunda moved to tears. The Battle Hymn of the Republic, a classic and Reagan’s favorite (and mine too), gave the strange feeling of cheer and solemnity at a time. The ceremonies performed inside the National Cathedral were not only valuable from the historical and political points of view but also emotive and beautiful, especially for the music.The discourse by Margaret Thatcher was a masterpiece for History. The final farewell was given in a golden twilight at the other extreme of the USA, by a dreamy Pacific in California at the Reagan Presidential Library, place surrounded by a landscape very similar to our coastal range nearby Viña del Mar. It was an emotional time of intimate ceremonies under the sunset with fantastic “arreboles”; it seemed to me being together on our terrace looking at the Coast Range by the West towards our own Pacific. I recorded the ceremonies and the rituals for you. I am sure you will enjoy this 2-hour video as much as you did with that dedicated to September Eleven 2001. I apply one Reagan’s lemma for us: we have been successful because we have appealed to our best hopes, not to our worst fears.Time nears us reaching today a new anniversary. There was a misty autumnal day after the first true rain and snowfall, but for me the sun was the remembrance of June 12, 1998, a glorious day linked to you, Gaudy and Brahms, and to a sunny, warm and promising afternoon in the middle of the winter. [Download]April 30 Entry into the EU & Stephen KingEntry into the EU & Stephen King [click] May 1, 2009 [May 1, 2004] raul hernandez chile - Raul Hernandez Olea - Raúl Hernández Olea - AndesEbla - EblaChile - Marcela Nenickova - Marcela Neničková - Nenickova - Neničková - Nicolo Machiavelli - Niccolò Machiavelli - Isaac Newton 
On Sunday first of May I was kissing you under the cherry tree! It was a flashing pink tree resembling my Aránzazu’s flower-plum tree at the arrival of the spring. The beautiful “remolino”, which for the Buddhists is a machine of praying but for the Chileans is a machine of joy, was spreading my joyful prayers for you in the wind from your balcony. Spring in Chile is the season of kites and remolinos. I conjure a marvelous multicolor silky kite blown in the sky conveying my love to you. Whirling prayers and flying colors compose a poem carrying my longing for being with you in Karviná, which remains a holy place in my soul. It is out of this World and belongs to the dreamy whirling arm of the Milky Way, where we roam in the search for love, hope and peace. Amidst the music of the universe, the harmonies of the real music and the stillness of the solitary night, I silently enter your kitchen to taste a sip of Porto with Vanočka and apple-chocolate cake baked by your loving hands.Today was the Czech entry into the European Union, historic event, which seen from Chile looked great, hopeful and confident. The Chileans were specially expectants, for obvious reasons related to our Free Commerce Treaty and our social-cultural links with Europe. The celebrations started in Ireland (Dublin), Poland, Hungary, Lithuania and Cyprus, and spread all over Europe with grand shows of fireworks at the midnight of April 30. Everything was shown on the CNN, Deutsche Welle, BBC, Spanish, French and Italian TV late in the afternoon of April 30, giving an illusory sense of anticipation in the timetable (due to the different hemispheres in which we are). The Chilean TV stations gave live broadcasts showing gleeful and hopeful news too. While before the wall window of my study room was unfolding a spectacular twilight by the High Andes, I was in the Karviná Plaza gleefully celebrating with you. Welcome my beloved Czech Lady and brand-new European!Nothing was shown from Praha but I was lucky the very morning of May 1st watching the official ceremony in Zittau (the town of the three borders among the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany). Both the Deutsche Welle and the BBC broadcasted it, and even the DW gave the discourse by Spidla and the cheers with big glasses of beer among the three Prime Ministers and their stroll by the three borders, entering symbolically the three countries at once. I found most notable the grand importance given to Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary, stressing the fact that the concept of “Eastern” Europe and its evil bond to the old communist regimes in the Soviet Empire is definitely dead and buried. Thus, now just there is one Europe reunited, and the partner of us the Chileans. As part of the celebrations Lithuania sent to Santiago a fine Chord Quartet, which gave a special concert in Santiago.News on your preparations for coming let me optimistic. We have to travel to the Elqui Valley one golden day and its starry night to be blessed again. We will renew our intimate liturgy in the nature. We should spend one more night in Vicuña –the town in the heart of the Valley– and to spend some days by the sea in Andalué (Guanaqueros). I have delightful remembrances from our journey by the coast the past year in a sunny winter day of August, when in Rocas de Santo Domingo we had the Stephen King approach to that solitary and weird restaurant on the cliffs at the seaside. Do you remember? Was it a happy day for you too? [Download] Next blog entry [click]March 30 Software
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July 26 ArtfulnessAbout Carl Sandburg by Jorge Luis Borges Raul Hernandez Olea / Raúl Hernández Olea / AndesEbla / EblaChile Dedicatoria de Smoke and Steel: "Al Coronel Eduardo J. Steichen, pintor de nocturnos y rostros, grabador de vislumbres y de momentos, oyente de vientos azules de la tarde y frescas rosas amarillas, soñador y hallador, jinete de grandes mañanas en jardines, valles, batallas." To COL. EDWARD J. STEICHEN, painter of nocturnes and faces, camera engraver of glints and moments, listener to blue twilight winds and new yellow roses, dreamer and finder, rider of great mornings in gardens, valleys, battles. Spring FieldAncient Ebla |
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